Rich Puchalsky 
The Netherlands has a multi-party system just like reformers in the US want, reputable elections, biking infrastructure that people won't shut up about, a long tradition of social democracy, and just had a far-right election victory. The rise of fascism is not some trickery by Trump or the Russians or the US system: it's part of the world-wide failure of neoliberalism, which suppressed the left and then died.
Priscilla Haring-Kuipers@RichPuchalsky within our pluralistic system the green/labour combo also got a lot of votes, a lot more than last election. I am very unhappy with the amount of votes for right-wing PVV but it is not the only thing happening. Coalition still needs to be formed, because it is pluralistic the government is not simply formed by whoever has most votes (now PVV) because that is not a majority.
🍵 holly@priscillaharing @RichPuchalsky I'm hanging my hopes on a GL/PvdA-led coalition, but the fact that so many would vote for Wilders is a gut punch. I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner last night, all of us in attendance were immigrants. 9pm felt eerily like Nov 2016.
@holly @RichPuchalsky so sorry 😔